Lily & Dizzee Lead Ivor Novello Nominations

The nominations for this year's Ivor Novello awards have been announced, with Lily Allen and Dizzee Rascal leading the field with two nominations a piece.

Lily's song 'The Fear' is nominated as 'Best Song' and 'Most Performed Work' at the prestigious songwriting awards, while Dizzee has bagged nominations for 'Best Contemporary Song' for 'Bonkers' and the 'Album Award' for 'Tongue In Cheek'.

Dizzee will be up against our own Duckworth Lewis Method, who are also nominated in the album category for their self-titled cricket themed album, which was also nominated for the Choice Music Prize earlier this year. We'll be keeping our fingers crossed for Neil Hannon and Thomas Walsh, and hope that they come out ahead of Dizzee, as well as Paolo Nutini, whose hugely popular album 'Sunny Side Up' is also nominated.

Meanwhile, Girls Aloud, Bat For Lashes, La Roux and James Morrison have also picked up nominations in various categories. The award ceremony is set to take place at London's Grosvenor House on May 20th. The full list of nominations is below:

Best Contemporary Song

'Bonkers' performed by Dizzee Rascal
Written by Dylan Mills and Armand Van Helden

'Daniel' performed by Bat For Lashes
Written by Natasha Khan

'In For The Kill' performed by La Roux
Written by Elly Jackson and Ben Langmaid

Best Song Musically & Lyrically

'Save It For Someone Who Cares' performed by The Leisure Society
Written by Nick Hemming

'The Fear' performed by Lily Allen
Written by Lily Allen and Greg Kurstin

'The Last Bus' performed by Patch William
Written by Ed Adlard, Will Adlard, Ali Digby and George Eddy

PRS For Music Most Performed Work

'Broken Strings' performed by James Morrison and Nelly Furtado
Written by James Morrison, Fraser T Smith and Nina Woodford

'The Fear' performed by Lily Allen
Written by Lily Allen and Greg Kurstin

'The Promise' performed by Girls Aloud
Written by Nick Coler, Miranda Cooper, Brian Higgins, Kieran Jones, Tim Powell, Jason Resch and Carla Williams